Giovanni battista crosato biography sample
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Biography
Italian painter and stage designer. His earliest known work, the Flagellation of Christ (c. 1706; Venice, Museo Diocesano S Apollinia), for the Scuola del Cristo of S Marcuola, is a dark, shadowy painting that reveals the strong influence of tenebrist trends of the 17th century.
Giovanni battista crosato biography sample
Crosato, however, belonged to the generation of Venetian painters such as Jacopo Amigoni,Sebastiano Ricci and Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini, who were developing a lighter, more colourful style. His tonality changed from the darkened shadows of the Flagellation to the light-filled frescoes for Stupinigi, the hunting palace of the Duke of Savoy, near Turin, which constitute his next known work.
The most successful of these, the Sacrifice of Iphigenia (begun 1733), on the vault of the antechamber of the queen's apartment, is a highly dramatic work full of bright bold colours accentuated against the blue sky and white clouds.
The gold, blue and red tones are effectively placed so as to lead the eye a